Dear editor,
Your writer, Natsai Todd, completely missed the point about our city’s levee protection when writing this story. This isn’t a matter of which part of the city was better protected by levees.
Parts of New Orleans flooded because the federally funded and federally built levee systems collapsed, even though these systems were supposed to be built for a Category 3 hurricane like Hurricane Katrina.
These levee systems were not built properly, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers and its building contractors used inferior materials and building techniques when they built them.
Wendy King
New Orleans
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